Up the river
Subtitle: steam navigation above Carquinez Strait
By: David Hull, editor.
Contributors: Hull, David, librarian.; Book Club of California.; Arion Press.; Charles Graphics.
Series: The keepsake for 2002; Keepsake series (Book Club of California) -- 2002.
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Steam-navigation -- California -- History.; Paddle steamers -- California -- History.; River boats -- California -- History.; Inland navigation -- California -- History.
Notes: Limited ed. of 1000 copies.

"Designed and produced by the Arion Press ... The type is digitally composed Minion ... Printed ... at Charles Graphics, San Francisco, and bound by Roswell Bookbinding of Phoenix, Arizona"--Colophon.

Printed wrapper; in chemise; slipcase, blue cloth with mounted spine labels.

Includes bibliographical references.

Library copy unnumbered.
Table of contents: title: Sidewheel steamships on the Strait : the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's depot at Benicia, 1850-1869 / James P. Delgado; title: The wine ship [the Angelo Petri] / William Kooiman; title: The gold boat of Sacramento [the Antelope] / Richard H. Dillon; title: The Linda : first steamship to ascend the Feather and Yuba Rivers / Gary F. Kurutz; title: Dover : the last sternwheel steamer upriver / Otis Oldfield; title: Steamboats : on the American River? / Norman L. Wilson; title: Above the head of navigation : steaming south to Fresno and on Tulare Lake / Duncan S. Harvey; title: The steamer with two lives / Carl Nolte; title: Comfort and luxury afloat / Stan Garvey; title: Boats flaming like torches / James E. Henley; title: The first steamer to navigate San Francisco Bay / John Haskell Kemble; title: "Another unfortunate 'accident' on the River" / Robert J. Chandler.